Kid Lit, Coming-of-Age & Stories of Black Womanhood: What I Read in February 2023
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Host Victoria Horn discusses the books she read in February 2023, from bedtime stories and YA graphic novels to Ashley C. Ford's powerful memoir Somebody's Daughter and Toni Morrison's Recitatif. On V's Verses, Victoria recommends love poems and reads her original poem, "A Lifetime."
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Scorched Grace by Margo Douaihy (coming soon to Adult Fiction!)
Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld (Odell owns)
Bear is a Bear by Jonathan Stutzman, illustrated by Dan Sandat (Odell owns)
There’s a Mouse in My House by Ross Collins (Odell owns)
It's So Quiet by Sherri Duskey Rinker, illustrated by Tony Fucile (Odell owns)
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (Odell owns)
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford (Odell owns)
Recitatif by Toni Morrison (Odell owns)
The New Oil Painting by Kimberly Brooks
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith
I’m A Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz
Victoria Horn's poetry Instagram @verses.with.v
“In Trust” and “The Hug” by Thom Gunn
“Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)” by Emily Dickinson
“Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare
“Poem for My Love” by June Jordan
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